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Carbondale Reporter

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Former state university employee Coe paid in $51K to pension fund, could collect $1.28M in retirement

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Former state university employee Karen Coe, who retired in January 2016, saved $50,532 toward a pension over 30 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Coe would collect as much as $1.28 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Carbondale Reporter.

The projection assumes Coe received $26,864 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Coe will have already received $54,534 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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